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Differences Between Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird
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Differences Between Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird
by humpd » Sun 27 Nov, 2005 10:39 pm
I have been using Thunderbird (latest final build) on my laptop and I cannot see any significant differences between it and the email client in Mozilla suite. I know that Thunderbird is a stand alone mail client but are there any significant differences between the two. I do not use the laptop all that often so maybe I have just not experienced using it enough to see a difference. But, if there is anything that makes Thunderbird better than Mozilla mail, could you list them?
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by Don_HH2K » Mon 28 Nov, 2005 7:53 am
The differences between Thunderbird and Mozilla Mail are mostly under-the-hood. Thunderbird has its own extension API similar to Mozilla Suite, but as a rule of thumb Thunderbird extensions aren't compatible with Mozilla Mail extensions. It should be noted that there are a whole lot more extensions to Thunderbird than there are to Mozilla Mail.
Thunderbird also has support for RSS feeds, although you can add that to Mozilla Mail through Forumzilla or running the Donzilla suite which has Forumzilla built in.
Thunderbird also has support for RSS feeds, although you can add that to Mozilla Mail through Forumzilla or running the Donzilla suite which has Forumzilla built in.
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by humpd » Mon 28 Nov, 2005 5:06 pm
The bottom line seems to be that there are really few differences of significance to me between the two. Thanks for the reply.
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by Fulvio » Mon 28 Nov, 2005 5:14 pm
For me, using Firefox, as default browser, it is better to have a standalone than the mail portion of a suite. It is more straightforward, with no chance of links opening in the suite, rather than in Firefox. Otherwise there should little or no difference between TB1.0.7 and mail from Moz1.7.12.
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